Non-interactive mode

[kawasaki-kanagawa]

This is more of a question: is any interest to support non-interactive mode? I'm setting up kojirou to be run on-demand via CI pipeline and found some parts which I wish work differently (and I'm happy to contribute the changes as well as Woodpecker CI plugin if desired). Cheers!

Progress bar output

1. Would be nice if the progress bar output would switch to something simpler when the program detects it's running in non-interactive mode.

2. On the same note but to the opposite direction, would be fantastic if program can output color text when it detects CI environment variable — modern CI systems support color, but not "delete" characters. Something along the lines of:

   if os.Getenv("CI") != "" {
     color.NoColor = false;
   }

External store

Because of on-demand download in ephemeral runner, I would want to have the books to be stored in external storage such as S3.

Right now, my pipeline goes from kojirou to Rclone, which is fine except kojirou does not take advantage of whether some volumes can be skipped. While I can hack on it to be wrapped further, I think this would be a pretty neat feature to be built in the program.

[leotaku]

Would be nice if the progress bar output would switch to something simpler when the program detects it's running in non-interactive mode.

Yeah, that does sound like a good idea. The full progress bar should probably only be drawn if the output is a TTY.

On the same note but to the opposite direction, would be fantastic if program can output color text when it detects CI environment variable — modern CI systems support color, but not "delete" characters. Something along the lines of:

Probably a no on that one. Seems like a bad idea to assume that running in CI means that colors are supported. Maybe we could support a new option or something like CLICOLORS, but even that seems like it's probably not worth the additional code, seeing how colors in a CI environment seems like a very niche use-case.

External store

Probably a no for me as well, as this would almost certainly require additional dependencies and code. Maybe you could mount your external storage as a FUSE filesystem to achieve the desired effect?